AQW 4434/16-21

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 03/10/2016
Answered On Date: 18/10/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail each school's maintenance costs, broken down by (i) primary; and (ii) post-primary school.

Answer:

The Education Authority (EA) is responsible for maintenance in controlled, voluntary maintained and Irish medium primary and post primary schools and has provided details of maintenance expenditure in individual schools for the 2015/16 financial year. I have arranged for this information to be placed in the Assembly Library.

The EA’s total maintenance expenditure in primary schools in 2015/16 was £8,561,798; while £5,160,282 was spent in post-primary schools.

Voluntary Grammar Schools and Grant Maintained Integrated Schools are responsible for their own maintenance, with the cost being met from the school’s own recurrent budget. The Department of Education does not therefore hold information on maintenance expenditure in these schools.